tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75756176341138909262023-11-15T12:58:10.767-05:00feolesalwayswriteA place to write and talk about writing.dianefeolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940864630354229739noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575617634113890926.post-44003754867549163372008-04-09T10:43:00.002-04:002008-04-09T10:49:54.951-04:00Kite Runner and Splendid Suns Lovers - Look at This!!!If you loved <em>The Kite Runner</em> and/or <em>A Thousand Splendid Suns</em> then you will love that you can email Khaled Hosseini this month and he will write answers to questions back on his blog!! I know that I love it. I am going to ask him if he is available - only kidding!!!!<br />Please e-mail him. I would love to see some of our questions "published." Again, the link is <a href="http://www.khaledhosseini.com/">http://www.khaledhosseini.com/</a> .<br />-Ms. Feoledianefeolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940864630354229739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575617634113890926.post-42982091773181071722008-04-03T18:10:00.003-04:002008-04-03T18:22:18.590-04:00In response to Cassie's prose poetry on the leftI wept when I read this. The language, the images. I am impressed, astounded, envious, of your words. I think that we can all be inspired to write by each other. I have been bragging all week about you, my seniors. You are so enthusiastic, so alive. You have given me a great gift this year, when there are so many influences local, state, and federal banging at my temple to remove the personal, the creative, the individual that is me from the equation of my teaching. I fill out forms and I use templates and I give standardized tests, the same to everyone. The great equalizeducation. And then Cassie, after a quick conversation after school sends me something so personal, so lovely, so beyond the expectations and frankly the comprehension of those in charge of all this square pegging, and I melt. I want to be your teacher. I want to inspire you the way you inspire me to work harder; not to get students to achieve test scores and digital portfolio and performance tasks. This here, this is performance- based success, the kind that isn't put into a template or on a computer screen and displayed in a graphically pleasing manner. Organic, natural, personal, inspiring - education - my performance enhancing drug.<br />GO Periods 6&7!!! Poetry Slam '08!dianefeolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940864630354229739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575617634113890926.post-73775970511135314532008-03-26T12:07:00.001-04:002008-03-26T12:08:14.710-04:00POETRY SLAM!!!!<span style="font-size:130%;color:#006600;"><em>CONTEMPORA's ? Annual Poetry Slam is Next Friday, April 4, periods 6&7. Be there or be a round peg! Anyone want to contribute? Attend? </em></span>dianefeolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940864630354229739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575617634113890926.post-27689578201112621152008-03-12T08:46:00.001-04:002008-03-12T08:47:55.642-04:00Check it out! Everyone!Look to the left. I will be featuring student work here from now on. Come on, challenge me to pick yours!dianefeolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940864630354229739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575617634113890926.post-34460458461561698582008-03-07T13:41:00.002-05:002008-03-07T13:43:02.168-05:00I am so excited about photo poems!Seniors - please send me your photo poems on here so we can #1 share them, and #2 - get them in Contempora magazine. You have to do it ASAP to meet the deadline! So, JUST DO IT!!!dianefeolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940864630354229739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575617634113890926.post-75889301883861100652008-03-04T12:07:00.002-05:002008-03-04T12:12:55.110-05:00To everyone!Thanks so much for participating in the blogging experiment. It is going well for some classes, and not so well for others. I am trying to figure out wikis so we can help each other edit each others' work. I am working on it. I will keep you informed. For now, please just let me know how you are doing with this blogging thing, and if you have any suggestions.<br />Ms. Feoledianefeolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940864630354229739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575617634113890926.post-39706570079596223482008-02-29T10:58:00.002-05:002008-02-29T11:06:30.226-05:00For Writing Lab students eyes only!!!Okay - it is time for you to tell me about what you will be presenting next week. Send me a comment back that explains what you have done, how you did it, and what you think about your final product. Do you think I will be impressed? How does it incorporate your own voice?<br />I can't wait to hear from you!!<br />Ms. Feoledianefeolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940864630354229739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575617634113890926.post-67986425309777980262008-02-29T10:17:00.002-05:002008-02-29T10:28:51.094-05:00Creative Writing Students - for you!I want to see the progress of your list poems. I once wrote a poem about the contents of my son's pocket. It was just an exercise, but it felt comfortable to pick a topic I know so well. It became something more because I connected each item to what he might become when he grows up. Most poems have some sort of listing. It is the detail work that poems need to provide images and meaning. Look in the poem "Mushrooms" by Sylvia Plath that I handed out in class. Can you find listing? How about in the Poem "The Blue Booby" by James Tate or "Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds? You will find it everywhere.<br />So let's see what you got. I am excited to hear from you.<br />Ms. Feoledianefeolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940864630354229739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575617634113890926.post-56762346689910754102008-02-29T10:12:00.002-05:002008-02-29T10:15:41.770-05:00For my 9th graders only!!!!Okay, guys. It is time for you to try this out! I want you to write your "My Name" pieces that we wrote in class as a post to me here. I want others to be able to see the incredible work you have done. I also want you to tell me and each other what you thought about this assignment. Did it teach you anything new, or did it make you realize anything about writing, or about yourself?<br />Let me and each other know!!dianefeolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940864630354229739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575617634113890926.post-52103558092038430872008-02-28T07:50:00.002-05:002008-02-28T07:59:33.554-05:00Sestinas 2XI would really like to post some of your <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">sestina</span> work on here. Does anyone know how? Help if you know.<br />Also - I loved your comments!! - Jenn <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Heng</span> - you are insightful!. Kyle - you'd never know that you thought that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">sestinas</span> "sucked" because yours turned out so well. Others seem to agree. My other class will be <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">chiming</span> in tonight, so you can all become like a community of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Feole's</span> writers!!! How cool is this? I am in love with technology for just this very moment!<br />Thanks for responding.<br />Ms. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Feole</span>dianefeolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940864630354229739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575617634113890926.post-28405647713274544422008-02-27T13:39:00.002-05:002008-02-27T13:45:43.898-05:00For my writing students - a little jobTonight I would like to hear from you and what you think about this process of writing sestinas. So just for a moment, write to me, or to comments of another in our classes, and express your frustrations, success, desire, likes, dislikes, etc... about sestinas. What have you learned about yourself in the process? Do you like one specific one that you read? Who's was it? What was it about? What made it stand apart from the rest.<br />You know, this is a first for me, this whole blogging thing, and I really want to make it work. So WRITE!dianefeolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940864630354229739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575617634113890926.post-51349296502720897172008-02-12T08:23:00.001-05:002008-02-12T08:25:53.003-05:00Well, here I am trying to learn how to blog and get all of you to respond and forgot to post a comment for you to respond to!<br />Here is what I am wondering and I invite all of you to respond. What do you want to write about on here? What would be helpful to you as my students?<br />Ms. Feoledianefeolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940864630354229739noreply@blogger.com0